My family is still hammering out the details of his memorial service. We want to celebrate his life surrounded by his friends and family, so I'll be traveling down to Texas again soon.

My dad has been battling brain cancer for the past 6 years, and I refused to grieve him while he's still alive, but i think I started to as soon as he was moved to hospice care a couple weeks ago. I'm still grieving, and I probably will be for a very long time. Im still feeling the pain of losing both my cats within a few months of each other, all within this same year.

My mom is going to cover my plane tickets, but to be honest I know she cant afford that, and I'm trying to scrounge together what I can to ease the financial burden. Im taking my pokemon cards to a comic shop to sell next week, and I started a Ko-Fi goal for the trip when dad was moved to hospice care:

https://ko-fi.com/goatpaws/goal?g=5

I'm behind on my commission queue, I cannot take anymore work, and may be producing personal art as I grieve and try to heal. So far ive mostly been crying until I get tired and then rotting in bed, but im trying to cope in healthier, more productive ways. Please be patient with me, im doing my best.

I love you all, hug your loved ones while you still can.

-- Goat

Thank you so much to everyone who donated to help me survive the extra stay in Texas, I ended up flying home and im currently on a bus taking me home from the airport.

Ill need a couple days to recover from the trip, but I'll be starting on donation doodles asap!

I'm currently in Texas visiting my parents. My dad has brain cancer, so my sibling and I came down to visit and help them out as best we can. The trip was only supposed to be a couple weeks, but my sibling's car has a steering fluid leak and needs a new power steering rack, which is unfortunately on national backorder. We don't know when the part will arrive, and I can't really afford the extended stay (i have a doctor's appointment on the 12th i NEED to attend). We're hoping the part arrives soon, but it looks like I might have to book a flight home.

Im still unemployed (my plan was to start job hunting when we got back home) and my sibling has had to pay my way since I've run out of funds.

I have a Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/goatpaws
And a Venmo (this is an easier way to give money to my sibling) https://www.venmo.com/u/GoatPaws

Donations at or above $10 = single character doodle
Donations at or above $30 = simple flat color drawing of 1 character
Donations at or above $50 = fully rendered single character with abstract bg

These are *only* available until I'm able to get home, after which i will begin work on them immediately!

Please DM / note me your refs if you donate! If you donate and dont really want art that is totally fine! Please do not leave NSFW comments on financial transactions!!!

So, life is not especially great right now, I just lost all of my savings (which were specifically to go visit my dad in Texas, who has brain cancer and in now in palliative care) bc my car got towed for expired tags (my car situation is complicated and beyond my financial means to handle, the inspection is still out bc there's no way she'll pass without repairs that, again, I cannot afford) and part of getting my car back involved getting insurance, which I now have to pay a bill for by the 20th. I have $3 to my name and just lost my job bc my poor health (I'm dealing with some complications from uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, kidney damage, chronic pain, etc) has made me miss too many shifts and they're not taking a note from my doctor anymore.

I have nothing left, I'm at a loss. If anyone can spare anything I have a Ko-Fi I know the donation goal is meant for going to see my dad, which I absolutely still want to do, but my focus right now is surviving and paying bills.

I will be re-uploading older NSFW art and once again dealing in adult art. Continuing the business I was keeping my page clean for won't really be feasible with the whole tariff situation, so there's really no point in sanitizing my work. Apologies to anyone that may turn away, I wish the custom thumbnails would function properly so I could spare y'all from seeing stuff you might not want to. Hopefully most folks only here for SFW will have SFW Mode turned on.

My Ko-Fi Store is still open: https://ko-fi.com/goatpaws/shop and everything in stock is the last merch I'm ever going to have for goodness knows how long, with the exception of domestically produced goods.

I will also be posting a few YCH (not fully opening for commissions yet, still catching up on my queue first)

If you're reading this, I love you, thanks for taking the time, thanks for being a follower, a fan, or a curious passerby. Going through all of this while the economy is crumbling to the ground, I know things are scary and uncertain for everyone, please only donate if it will not cause you pain. I need to eat, but so do you.

I've added shipping to Canada to my Ko-fi Shop!!!

A lot of what I sell is Monster Rancher goods, and the series has a lot of Canadian fans, so I wanted to make sure they could get some MR stuff, too! I also offer a steep discount for combined shipping (adding stickers to your order doesn't increase shipping at all! and adding charms to an order only costs 25 cents USD each!)

I am currently saving for a new PC that I can stream with (and use for making art, since what I currently use is a potato laptop that barely runs). Even if you have no interest in merch, any and all donations are appreciated!

I intend to stream on both Twitch (for clean art and vidya games) and Picarto (for lewd and NSFW art) as soon as i'm able to. I am disabled an it's difficult for me to work my retail job for more than 4 hours a day a couple days a week, so having a new, functional PC to make art on will massively help with income AND productivity (seriously, with my current setup art that should only take a few hours can take weeks to finish, and my art programs crash constantly).

I hope to be streaming by the end of this year!

I've finally opened up my online storefront for acrylic charms!

My KO-FI STORE!
IS FINALLY
OPEN!!!!!!!!

It's mostly Monster Rancher (plus These Paw charms and These Cat no Bananya charms ) But next year I'll be adding more original stuff + Digimon and Pokemon (and more early next year!)

Any and all support is appreciated! And I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!!

https://thronegifts.com/u/goatpaws
https://thronegifts.com/u/goatpaws
https://thronegifts.com/u/goatpaws

My roommate, who is a streamer, told me about Throne. It's a fun way for fans to send little gifts to creators safely! I put some art supplies and other fun things in there. Hopefully once I get my stream going I'll have a chance to advertise it properly. Maybe I'll do something like draw something fun on stream for anyone who buys something on there? We'll see.

>>> https://twitter.com/GoatPawsDraws/s.....813939714?s=20 <<<

Made a quick poll for what to focus on next when I'm free to do more personal art again!

Twitter only allows 4 options, but all of them will involve some degree of tickling!

I made a twitter for lewd art! It's @ GoatPawsDraws for anyone that wants to follow for sketches and musings you don't get on FA in addition to the usual pieces of finished art.

It's mostly tickling kink art rn, but I'll probably add some chubby/weight gain/stuffing art as well soon.

The Twitter I have listed on here is my main/sfw account, which is where my clean art goes!

Hey everyone! I know I havent posted new art in a few weeks, it's mostly bc I'm working on my commission queue anytime I get a moment to draw, but also...

A couple weeks ago my partner, Josh, had a massive couple of seizures and went to the hospital, but they could not pinpoint a cause. He'd never had a seizure before, so this is a new and scary situation! His mom is epileptic, so it's likely he may be diagnosed with epilepsy when we see a neurologist. He had another, smaller seizure on Wednesday night and finally got some medication, but now he is not allowed to drive until he has been seizure-free for 6 consecutive months or until he's cleared by a neurologist.

Since I'll be driving him to and from work for the foreseeable future, I'm no longer able to stay home and work on art on the weekend like I once could, but I'll be making adjustments to my own work schedule to accommodate soon!

That being said, Josh is definitely the breadwinner between us bc my disabilities make it difficult for me to stand for a long period of time, so the possibility of him suddenly being unable to work has made us both worry quite a bit. We haven't recovered financially from the pandemic, so there's not much left of our savings.

I'm considering an art auction to raise an emergency fund in case he has to take time off, money for uber when I can't give him a ride, and anything else he might need (tbh I'm not even gonna look at the hospital bill, I don't think I'll be able to raise THAT much money in my whole life. This would just be for basic needs and to make sure he has a safety net to facilitate recovery and wellness)

This auction will either be a YCH, an adopt, or an auction for physical art I have made (likely a painting), and y'all feel free to tell me which you'd prefer. The SB for any of these will be fairly high, but it's all I can do to help him financially for now.

You can also donate in the meantime!

If anyone also has Uber giftcards they're not using, please note me!

Also Josh's Twitch is Joshdpathfinder if you guys wanna pop by when he's streaming and say hi! He's having a really hard time with all of this and having someone to chat with while streaming tends to cheer him up! He mostly plays Overwatch and is a big Roadhog fan.

Thanks for taking the time to read this! I hope y'all have a wonderful day!

I draw a large variety of both SFW and NSFW themes, but I only get so much time to draw!

Please comment on this journal to let me know what themes/kinks you'd like to see more of! (For example, stuffing/inflation/navel/belly kink, tickling, paws, TF, vore, clean toon/fanart, itching/fleas, sneezing/allergies, digestive distress/tummy burbles, fatfur/weight gain, eggnancy/seedbed, aphrodisiacs, lactation, machines/bondage, micro/macro, general fanart, etc)

I'm considering opening for suggestions in the future like I did before Tumblr got sanitized, but with a tip jar this time so I can keep it up.

My disabilities make it impossible to work while standing for long periods, so I'm hoping to supplement our income with art in the most efficient ways possible!

I will not open for commissions very often, and they will be extremely limited. Right now the plan is one (1) YCH auction to help raise money for my senior cat's veterinary care (she has a bladder stone and needs special food, cream for a rash that needs to heal before they'll operate, possibly surgery if the stone doesn't dissolve, etc) and the replies to this journal will help me decide what kind of YCH to make.

I've added a ko-fi to my social links, and tips/donations can also be made
here !!

Even if you can't tip, please feel free to let me know what kind of art you'd like to see!

As a few of you know, I had to take a long hiatus very suddenly for my health (as well as breaking my leg in 5 places right before moving to another state/ finding and starting a new job/ living in a friend's basement/ working through the pandemic while my partner was furloughed from his restaurant job/ etc.) I've also lost a lot of my work on the laptop I was using (it was very old, RIP) and no longer have access to a lot of old social media, so if you are waiting on a commission please send me a note!

So, to catch y'all up, I'm trying to get back into finishing digital pieces more regularly and ultimately my goal is to become a full time artist so I can work from home (chronic pain + leg injury make standing for long periods VERY painful)

So how will I be doing that? A few ways!

.1) Fans of my SFW art, I now have a Twitch channel!
• Streams will be every Saturday starting later this month or early June (streams will be announced here and Twitter!
• Every week will have a theme (Like Pokemon, 90's Toons, Hanna Barbera, Monster Rancher, kaiju, etc.) that will be announced the
week prior, and when I reach affiliate I can hold a viewer poll to decide which characters get drawn on stream.
• The stream will still be labeled 18+ even though the art is SFW. I can have a foul mouth occasionally, and the themes of the chat
might get a little mature.
• I will also stream games on occasion

.2) Fans of my NSFW comics and art, You will be able to enjoy them via Gumroad later this year!
• These will be worked on intermittently between other projects until I'm caught up on old art
• Some comics I made previously will be redrawn, and some comics will be new
• These comics and art can include (clearly tagged!) kinks like tickling, watersports, sneezing, paw, oviposition, vore, navel play, lactation, gas, scat, heat cycle, itching, stuffing, transformation, enema play and more.
• There will also be art packs available for hard kinks (scat/WS/gas/etc.) as many of those will not be posted anywhere else.

.3) This is less content related, but I will also be setting up a tip jar in the near future.
• My partner and I are trying to save for a house, so in order for me to continue using my time to make art, I have to earn money with it! Our goal is to get a mortgage by 1 year from now. The pandemic made it difficult for us, but I'm doing my best for our future!

.4) I still have a Redbubble!
• I have to make a new one soon, but for now, I still have lots of products available here!

I'll update this journal tomorrow, I've gotta go to bed! I get my second vaccine shot and I have to get up early.